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SurePoint and the Case of the Vanishing Filing Cabinet
A law firm can win an argument and still lose track of its money. SurePoint’s long journey from accounting software to legal intelligence is a wager that the business of law deserves as much attention as the practice.
Flo
Flo (formerly Flo Recruit) is an Austin-based software company building the talent platform for the legal industry. It connects law firms, law schools, attorneys, and search firms through a connected suite of recruiting and performance-management tools - including an applicant tracking system, the Flo Forward career platform, pipeline building, and Flo AI. Founded in 2017 by University of Texas students Katherine Allen and Atreya Misra, the company works with roughly 70% of AmLaw 100 firms and 85% of the top 50 U.S. law schools.
Katherine Allen
Katherine Allen is the co-founder and CEO of Flo Recruit (branded as Flo), an Austin-based vertical SaaS company that builds recruiting and hiring software for the legal industry. She started the company as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, went through Y Combinator in 2019, and left school to build Flo full time with co-founder Atreya Misra. Today Flo partners with more than 125 law firms, including close to 70% of the AmLaw 100, and over 100 law schools serving 25,000-plus students, and has raised roughly $5.5 million-plus across seed and a 2025 Series A round.